After a few month preparation, we got one more icon set ready. It is for Windows Vista this time. It has the same number of icons as the first XP icons except it gets bigger. The Vista style is more realistic than illustrative, but not quite photorealistic. Icons have a maximum size of 256×256 pixels (comparing [...]
Read more →There is one missing feature in ButtonPanel. That’s the arrow key support. On Windows (probably on Mac as well), people get used to use left or right keys to navigate among buttons on a horizontal button panel or up/down keys for vertical button panel. However Swing doesn’t have that. For example, in the JOptionPane, arrow keys don’t change [...]
Read more →I had been working closely with Wolfgang in last couple of months or so trying to support Synthetica L&F in all JIDE product lines. I am glad to say we are finally there. You can find some nice screenshots of our demos under various Synthetica themes below. They are all taken under JIDE 2.2.8 release [...]
Read more →As I mentioned before, I had an interesting BOF session for the this year JavaOne. The title is “Workaround Swing Bugs”. Even though it was conflicted with the afterdark party, there was still a decent number of people showed up. Since several people asked for it, I post the slides and the demo source code below. Slides [...]
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